Open fire : understanding global gun cultures /
Springwood, Charles Fruehling.
Oxford : Berg,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The social life of guns: an introduction / Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Gunscapes : toward a global geography of the firearm / Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Gun politics : reflections on Brazil's failed gun ban referendum in the Rio de Janeiro context / Donna Goldstein -- Of guns, children, and the maelstrom : determining purposive actions in Israeli-perpetrated firearm deaths of Palestinian children and minors / Frank M. Afflitto -- Silent but still deadly : guns and the peace process in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Warriors and guns : the anthropology of cattle rustling in northeastern Africa / Nene Mburu -- Arming desire : the sexual force of guns in the United States / C. Richard King -- Drawing a virtual gun / Katherine Gregory -- "Gun rights are civil rights" : racism and the right to keep and bear arms in the United States / Christy Allen -- "Man to man" : power and male relationships in the gunplay film / Robert Arjet -- Aiming for manhood : the transformation of guns into objects of American masculinity / Amy Ann Cox -- "I shot the sheriff" : gun talk in Jamaican popular music / Carolyn Cooper -- Playing at hate : war games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American psyche / Robert Rinehart -- The celebration of violence : a live-fire demonstration carried out by Japan's contemporary military / Eyal Ben-Ari and Sabine Frühstück.
Firearms
Firearms in popular culture
Firearms ownership.
Violence.
Gun control.